THIRTY  YEARS  OF 
CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR 

BRIEFLY  TOLD 
AND  MORE  AT  LENGTH 

The  Story  of  the  Year 

By 

Rev.  Francis  E.  Clark,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

President  of  the  United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor 
and  the  JVorld?  s  Christian  Endeavor  Union 


United  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor 

BOSTON  AND  CHICAGO 

Price,  Ten  Cents 


Cinrtp  gears  of  Christian 
Cnliea\)ov 

ON  the  second  of  February  next,  the  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor  will  have  rounded 
out  thirty  years  of  its  life;  and  it  is  fitting 
that  in  telling  the  story  of  the  last  year  of  the  thirty, 
we  should  glance  back  a  little  further  and  note  the 
reasons  for  gratitude  to  the  Almighty  which  mark 
the  pathway  of  these  score  and  a  half  of  years. 


Thirty  years  ago,  a  little  company  of  boys  and 
girls,  of  Portland,  Me.,  together  with  a  goodly  num¬ 
ber  of  their  older  brothers  and  sisters,  met  at  their 
pastor’s  house.  They  were  average  young  people,  in¬ 
tellectually  and  spiritually,  but  they  had  learned 
something  of  the  love  of  Christ,  and  they  had  a  sincere 
purpose  to  do  what  He  would  like  to  have  them  do. 
Though  they  enjoyed  each  other’s  company,  they 
did  not  come  simply  for  a  social  good  time.  Though 
many  of  them  were  school  boys  and  school  girls,  and 
enjoyed  good  literature,  they  did  not  come  simply 
for  a  literary  evening.  Though  cheerful  songs  en¬ 
livened  the  hours  that  they  spent  together,  they 
enjoyed  something  more  than  a  musical  evening. 
There  was  no  secrecy  about  the  meeting,  no  “  grips  ” 
or  passwords  or  high-sounding  offices  to  stir  the  ambi¬ 
tion  of  these  young  Christians.  The  simple  truth  was 
that  the  purpose  of  their  meeting  was  to  formulate 

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woman’s  section  of  one  of  the  great  auditorium  tents, 

FOURTH  WORLD’S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  CONVENTION, 
AGRA,  INDIA. 


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some  plan  and  devise  some  organization  which  might 
make  them  more  useful  in  their  Master’s  service. 

Their  pastor  had  already  prepared  such  a  tenta¬ 
tive  plan  of  action,  and  presented  it  to  them  under 
the  name  of  the  “  Williston  Young  People’s  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor.”  The  young  people  naturally 
demurred  at  first  over  some  of  the  provisions  of  the 
new  constitution.  They  thought  it  was  asking  a  good 
deal  of  them  to  promise  to  attend  and  take  some  part 
in  each  meeting;  but  when  the  pastor  pointed  out  to 
them  that  it  was  not  a  speech  or  an  essay  that  was 
wanted,  but  an  acknowledgment  of  their  discipleship 
that  was  involved  in  the  pledge,  and  that  any  reason 
which  they  could  conscientiously  give  to  their  Lord 
for  failure  to  take  part  in  the  meetings  or  do  any 
similar  duty  was  a  sufficient  excuse,  they  readily  ac¬ 
cepted  this  provision,  and  loyally  promised  to  live  up 
to  it. 

That  was  the  humble  beginning  of  the  first  Society 
of  Christian  Endeavor.  It  made  but  little  stir  in  the 
world.  The  Portland  papers  did  not  record  it  in 
glowing  headlines  the  next  morning,  or  even  mention  it 
in  the  smallest  type.  Many  of  the  older  church  mem¬ 
bers  doubtless  for  weeks  knew  little,  and  cared  less,  for 
this  new  Young  People’s  Society.  It  lived  and  grew 
amazingly,  however, —  that  is,  the  pastor  and  others 
who  looked  on  it  sympathetically  were  amazed,  be¬ 
cause  they  had  seen  other  experiments  tried  in  that 
church  for  the  development  of  the  young  life,  which 
lasted  but  a  little  time  and  did  but  little  good.  It  was 
apparent  that  a  new  element  had  been  introduced 

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into  this  Young  People’s  Society, —  the  heroic  ele¬ 
ment,  the  element  of  sincere  devotion  to  Jesus  Christ, 
of  high  ideals,  of  willingness  to  do  hard  things  for  His 
sake. 

The  Lookout  Committee,  the  Prayer  Meeting 
Committee,  and  the  Social  Committee  were  provided 
for  that  first  evening.  Others  were  added  later,  and 
gradually  the  society  became  a  training-school  for  the 
church,  not  only  in  expressions  of  devotion  to  Christ 
in  the  prayer  meeting,  but  along  a  score  of  other 
lines  of  service.  Other  young  people  of  the  com¬ 
munity  were  attracted;  the  spiritual  interests  of  the 
members  were  cared  for  as  never  before ;  their  literary 
and  social  instincts  did  not  suffer;  missionary  zeal 
was  aroused;  temperance  sentiment  was  cultivated; 
the  sick  and  the  poor  in  the  neighborhood  were  sought 
out  and  ministered  unto,  and  it  was  evident  that  a 
new  organization,  instinct  with  life,  had  been  intro¬ 
duced  into  that  church. 

Eight  months  later,  the  pastor  of  another  church 
heard  of  this  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor,  and 
formed  one  like  it.  Soon  another  followed  his  example, 
and  after  a  year  or  two,  the  numbers  increased  rapidly, 
and  from  that  day  to  this  there  has  scarcely  been  a 
halt  in  the  progress  and  development  of  the  Christian 
Endeavor  movement. 

Within  four  years  it  had  leaped  across  the  seas 
and  established  itself  in  Hawaii,  India,  and  China. 
Within  seven  years  it  began  to  attract  attention  in 
Great  Britain  and  Australia,  where  there  are  now 
many  thousands  of  societies.  It  soon  after  found  its 
way  to  Germany,  to  France,  to  Spain,  to  Scandinavia, 
to  Russia,  to  Southeastern  Europe.  Even  the  drastic 


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and  cruel  prohibitions  of  Hamid  II,  “  the  Assassin/’ 
then  the  Sultan  of  Turkey,  could  not  keep  it  out  of 
his  domain,  though  the  Endeavorers  of  Turkey  could 
not  wear  the  badge,  and  though  the  very  name  was 
on  the  index  expur  gator  ins. 

The  islands  of  the  East  and  the  West  responded. 
The  little,  almost  invisible  dots  on  the  map  of  the 
Pacific  Ocean  heard  of  Christian  Endeavor,  and,  by 
the  hundreds,  societies  were  formed  in  the  Island 
World,  until  now  it  is  true  that  a  larger  proportion 
of  the  people  of  the  South  Sea  Islands  are  Christian 
Endeavorers  than  are  found  in  any  other  part  of  the 
world. 


If  it  is  true  of  the  domains  of  King  George  that 
“  the  sun  never  sets  ”  upon  them,  it  is  doubly  true  of 
the  societies  of  Christian  Endeavor.  In  the  Occident 
and  the  Orient  they  are  equally  at  home.  From  the 
northernmost  point  of  inhabited  Alaska,  at  Point 
Barrow,  down  to  Invercargill  in  New  Zealand,  the 
most  southerly  town  of  any  considerable  size  in  the 
world,  Christian  Endeavor  is  found. 

The  one  society  has  multiplied  itself  fully  a  hun¬ 
dred  thousand  times,  for  there  are  now  nearly  74,000 
societies  upon  the  roll  of  the  World’s  Union,  and 
there  are  thousands  of  others  that  are  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  in  all  but  name.  Some  eight  years  after  the 
founding  of  the  first  society,  the  denominational 
Epworth  League  was  started,  and  some  thousands  of 
Methodist  Societies  of  Christian  Endeavor  became 
purely  denominational  Leagues.  Shortly  after  this 
the  Baptist  Young  People’s  Union  and  other  de- 

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SOME  OF  THE  NATIVE  DELEGATES  SENT  TO  THE  AGRA  CONVENTION  BY  AMERICAN  ENDEAVORERS. 
THE  AMERICAN  DELEGATION  IN  THE  FOREGROUND. 


®inrt£  of  Ctiriottau  Cntieatoor 


nominational  societies  were  also  organized,  but  many 
of  them  have  since  come  back  into  the  Christian 
Endeavor  fellowship,  and  have  been  most  warmly 
received,  while  the  tendency  now  is  altogether  to¬ 
ward  the  larger  interdenominational  and  international 
fellowship. 


Such,  in  brief,  is  the  story  of  thirty  years.  It  would 
take  volumes  to  tell  it  in  detail.  While  there  were 
some  scattering  and  loosely  organized  young  people’s 
societies,  thirty  years  ago,  there  were  none,  so  far  as 
I  am  aware,  with  a  definite  pledge  for  Christian 
service,  and  with  carefully  organized  committees  to 
perform  definite  duties  covering  the  whole  range  of 
Christian  living. 

Thirty  years  ago,  there  was  no  united  organization 
of  young  people.  Now,  almost  every  nation  has  its 
National  Christian  Endeavor  Union.  Local  unions 
exist  in  most  of  the  large  cities  of  the  world,  and 
State,  district,  and  county  unions  and  federations  of 
societies  bring  the  young  people  together  every  year 
in  thousands  of  conventions  and  conferences  and  in¬ 
stitutes,  where  their  enthusiasm  for  Christian  service 
is  aroused,  and  practical  methods,  proved  by  experi¬ 
ence,  are  taught. 

Thirty  years  ago,  there  was  no  organized  effort  for 
young  people  along  missionary  lines.  Now,  there  is 
scarcely  a  young  people’s  society  without  its  mission¬ 
ary  committee,  no  great  convention  without  its  mis¬ 
sionary  hour,  while  many  of  the  distinctive  modern 
missionary  movements,  like  the  Student  Volunteer, 
the  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement,  and  the  various 

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Brotherhoods  are  largely  manned  by  past  or  present 
Endeavorers,  who  received  their  first  impetus  along 
these  lines  in  a  Christian  Endeavor  meeting. 

Thirty  years  ago,  there  was  no  organized  effort 
among  young  people  for  good-citizenship  or  temper¬ 
ance.  Now  it  would  be  considered  strange  indeed  if 
any  great  convention  or  gathering  of  Christian  En¬ 
deavorers  forgot  to  sound  the  note  of  Christian  citizen¬ 
ship  and  civic  righteousness. 

Thirty  years  ago,  the  thought  of  the  Quiet  Hour, 
of  spending  a  little  time  in  communion  with  God 
each  day,  aside  from  the  more  or  less  formal  prayer 
and  Bible-reading,  was  scarcely  ever  emphasized  for 
the  young.  It  was  supposed  that  that  was  an  expe¬ 
rience  for  the  older  Christian  alone.  Now,  there  are 
many  tens  of  thousands  of  Christian  Endeavorers 
who  have  banded  themselves  together  as  Comrades 
of  the  Quiet  Hour.  Thirty  years  ago,  there  were  no 
efforts  to  enlist  the  young  in  systematic  and  propor¬ 
tionate  giving.  Now,  this  great  idea,  so  important  to 
all  future  missionary  interests,  is  made  concrete  and 
definite  in  the  Tenth  Legion,  to  which  tens  of  thou¬ 
sands  of  Endeavorers  belong. 

In  these  thirty  years,  the  Society  has  found  its  way 
across  the  seas  and  around  the  world  upon  many 
merchant  vessels  and  ships  of  war. 

It  has  not  been  discouraged  by  prison  bars  and 
bolts,  but  has  entered  as  a  blessed  influence  into  a 
multitude  of  prisons,  contributing  its  reforming  power 
to  the  men  behind  the  bars,  and  giving  them  hope  of 
a  new  chance  in  life  when  discharged. 

It  is  well,  once  in  a  while,  on  anniversary  occasions, 
to  recall  these  facts,  not  with  any  self-gratulation,  or 

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A  ft  AUSTRALIAN  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  DELEGATION. 

The  next  World’s  Christian  Endeavor  Convention  will  be  held  in  Sydney,  Australia. 


tlHnrty  of  Christian  (EnDeafaot* 


for  the  sake  of  lauding  the  Society,  but  that  we  may 
see  “what  God  hath  wrought,”  and  give  to  Him  the 
praise  for  His  marvellous  mercies  to  the  Society  of 
Christian  Endeavor.  There  was  little  human  wisdom 
in  the  organization  of  the  movement.  Many  opposed 
it,  laughed  at  it,  and  derided  it  in  the  early  days,  but 
again  it  has  been  shown  how 

God  hath  chosen  the  foolish  things  of  the  world  to  confound 
the  wise;  and  God  hath  chosen  the  weak  things  of  the  world  to 
confound  the  things  which  are  mighty; 

And  base  things  of  the  world,  and  things  which  are  despised, 
hath  God  chosen,  yea,  and  things  which  are  not,  to  bring  to 
nought  things  that  are: 

That  no  flesh  should  glory  in  his  presence. 


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IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA 

OF  all  the  thirty  years  past,  none  has  been  more  distinctly  a 
year  “  of  the  right  hand  of  the  Lord  ”  than  the  one  which, 
as  I  write,  is  drawing  to  a  close.  Even  in  the  early  days  of  the 
movement,  when  few  churches  had  adopted  the  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  idea,  and  there  was  an  almost  unlimited  field  for  its  de¬ 
velopment,  there  was  probably  never  a  year  when  more  societies 
were  formed  than  during  the  past  twelve  months. 

In  America,  though  1910  has  witnessed  no  National  Conven¬ 
tion,  the  year  has  been  distinguished  by  great  State  conventions, 
by  enthusiasm  for  and  development  of  the  Increase  Campaign, 
and  by  the  magnificent  work  of  the  field  secretaries  in  many  of 
our  Commonwealths  and  Provinces. 

It  has  been  my  good  fortune  to  go  to  more  State  conventions 
this  year  than  in  any  single  year  in  the  past,  and  I  can  say  with¬ 
out  hesitation  that,  as  a  rule,  they  have  been  larger,  more  full 
of  genuine  spirituality  and  real  enthusiasm,  than  any  that  I  have 
attended  in  these  various  States  in  the  past.  On  the  Pacific 
Coast,  in  the  great  Interior,  in  far-eastern  New  England,  in  the 
Sunny  South,  in  progressive  Canada,  I  have  attended  such  con¬ 
ventions,  and  every  part  of  the  country  and  every  part  of  the 
land  have  shared  in  the  advance. 

The  work  of  the  field  secretaries  has  been,  for  the  most  part, 
beyond  all  praise.  Self-sacrificing,  devoted,  untiring,  they  have 
gone  into  the  hard  places,  they  have  aroused  new  enthusiasms, 
they  have  taught  the  fundamental  principles  of  Christian  En¬ 
deavor,  they  have  shown  its  adaptability  to  the  largest  city 
church  and  the  smallest  country  community.  Above  all,  it  has 
been  demonstrated  that  a  field  secretary  of  the  right  character 
and  calibre  is  an  invaluable  adjunct  to  the  work  of  any  State, 
whether  he  be  employed  for  a  whole  year  or  for  only  a  fraction 
of  a  year.  All  the  States  and  Provinces  are  coming  to  realize  this, 
and  are  seeking  such  secretaries,  while  many  of  them  have  found 
such  workers.  This  means  more  for  the  growth  and  perpetuity 

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of  the  Christian  Endeavor  societies  throughout  the  country  than 
any  movement  of  recent  years. 

THE  GREAT  INCREASE  CAMPAIGN 

THE  impetus  given  to  the  formation  of  new  societies  by  the 
Increase  Campaign,  “  Christian  Endeavor,  1911,”  proposed 
at  the  St.  Paul  Convention,  for  a  million  new  members  and  ten 
thousand  new  societies,  has  been  marvellous.  The  response  from 
all  parts  of  America  was  prompt  and  cheering.  Many  States 
desired  to  know  at  once  the  quota  which  should  be  assigned  to 
them  in  the  numerical  increase;  even  county  and  city  unions 
desired  the  same  information.  The  result  has  been  a  larger  num¬ 
ber  of  new  societies  formed  than  almost  ever  in  the  history  of  the 
movement,  in  the  same  length  of  time.  It  is  too  early,  at  this 
writing,  to  give  exact  statistics;  indeed,  there  has  been  no  effort 
to  obtain  them.  The  societies  that  have  been  recorded  have  been 
simply  those  that  have  been  reported  without  any  effort  to 
obtain  complete  figures,  which  will  be  obtained  next  June  in 
season  to  report  at  the  Atlantic  City  Convention. 

With  these  incomplete  and  partial  returns,  however,  it  is 
known  that  more  than  4,000  new  societies  have  been  formed  since 
the  Increase  Campaign  began.  This  number  might  be  very 
largely  increased  and  still  come  within  the  truth  of  the  actual 
facts,  were  they  all  known.  Several  States  have  already  nearly, 
if  not  quite,  gained  the  number  assigned  to  them  as  their  propor¬ 
tion.  Among  these  may  be  mentioned  Nebraska,  Idaho,  Texas, 
and  Virginia. 

It  is  important,  however,  that  not  only  new  societies  should  be 
formed,  but  that  new  members  should  be  added  to  existing  soci¬ 
eties,  for  there  are  yet  many  young  people  in  every  community  not 
reached  by  the  energizing  and  training  influences  of  the  society. 
To  reach  them,  it  was  proposed  that  the  Increase  Campaign 
should  seek  for  a  million  new  Endeavorers  within  two  years. 
Along  this  line  of  effort,  too,  it  is  not  possible  yet  to  give  com¬ 
plete  statistics,  but  from  a  few  hundred  sample  reports  which 
have  been  received,  it  is  believed  that  not  less  than  350,000  new 
members  were  added  to  the  ranks  of  Christian  Endeavor,  in 
America  alone,  during  the  first  year  of  the  Increase  Campaign, 
and  it  is  confidently  hoped  that,  with  God’s  blessing,  a  round 

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million  may  be  reported  when  the  hosts  gather  at  Atlantic  City, 
in  July,  1911. 

The  influence  of  the  Increase  Campaign  has  been  felt  not  only 
in  the  addition  of  new  societies  and  new  members  to  old  societies, 
but  in  a  quickening  all  along  the  line.  The  earnest,  faithful  effort 
for  new  members  has  aroused  the  flagging  energies  of  some  older 
Endeavorers.  The  societies  have  felt  the  benefit  of  the  new  blood 
poured  into  their  veins.  The  unions  have  been  cheered  and  en¬ 
couraged  by  adding  a  multitude  of  new  societies  to  their  ranks, 
while  these  young  people,  who  have  never  before  known  the 
benefit  of  Christian  Endeavor,  have  learned  to  pray  and  to  study 
their  Bible,  to  stand  upon  their  feet  and  speak  in  the  Master’s 
name,  and  to  work  along  the  many  lines  of  committee  service. 
A  million  more  who  shall  be  praying  Christians  and  Bible- 
reading  Christians,  a  million  more  with  missionary  zeal  and 
patriotic  devotion,  a  million  more  who  shall  be  trained  along 
many  lines  for  the  church  of  the  future,  is  the  real  goal  of  the 
Increase  Campaign  which  we  call  “  Christian  Endeavor,  1911.” 


MASSACHUSETTS  1910  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  INSTITUTE, 
SAGAMORE  BEACH,  MASS. 


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CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  INSTITUTES  AND  SUMMER 
SCHOOLS 

ANOTHER  development  of  1910,  which  is  full  of  hope,  is  the  * 
-  establishment  and  growth  of  Summer  Schools  and  Christian 
Endeavor  Institutes,  which  during  the  past  year  have  been  more 
successful  and  prosperous  than  ever  before.  This  was  true  of 
the  Massachusetts  Christian  Endeavor  Institute  at  Sagamore 
Beach,  which  was  eminently  successful,  as  well  as  of  the  longer- 
established  Summer  School  at  Charleston,  Me.,  the  Presbyterian 
Endeavor  Assemblies  at  Winona,  Ind.,  and  at  Pocono  Pines, 
Penn.,  and  several  others  that  might  be  mentioned.  The  Dis¬ 
trict  Secretaries  of  New  York  and  the  County  Junior  Superin¬ 
tendents  met  together  for  their  annual  school  in  Auburn,  N.  Y., 
and  the  results,  as  always  in  the  past,  were  particularly  helpful 
to  the  cause  throughout  the  great  Empire  State. 

CANADA 

IN  Canada  during  the  past  year  there  has  been  a  decided  re¬ 
awakening  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  spirit.  In  far  western 
Canada,  Christian  Endeavor  has  always  been  a  live  force,  espe¬ 
cially  in  British  Columbia  and  Manitoba.  Both  of  these  great 
Provinces  enjoyed  exceptionally  good  conventions  this  year. 

In  Ontario,  where  there  has  been  some  lack  of  interest  for  a 
few  years  past,  the  forces  have  come  together  with  new  courage 
and  zeal.  I  had  the  privilege  of  attending  a  memorable  rally  in 
Toronto,  in  October,  where  fourteen  local  unions  were  repre¬ 
sented,  and  a  Provincial  Convention  is  planned  for  the  late  winter 
or  early  spring  of  1911.  From  Quebec,  too,  reports  of  constant 
activity  are  heard. 

MEXICO 

MEXICO  reports  nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty  Societies  of 
Christian  Endeavor.  The  great  event  of  the  past  year  was 
the  national  celebration  in  Mexico  City  in  September,  when 
many  national  organizations  met  to  signalize  the  One  Hundredth 
Anniversary  of  Mexican  independence.  Among  these  organiza¬ 
tions  was  the  Mexican  Christian  Endeavor  Union.  The  meetings 
were  peculiarly  interesting  and  full  of  hope  for  the  future,  and 
it  is  expected  that,  under  the  lead  of  President  S.Guy  Inman  and 

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MISS  ELLA  M.  WEATHERLEY,  LONDON,  ENGLAND,  PRESIDENT  BRITISH 
CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  UNION. 


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Secretary  A.  R.  Salas,  great  advance  will  be  made  in  the  coming 
year  throughout  the  Republic. 

GREAT  BRITAIN 

IN  Great  Britain  the  Christian  Endeavor  movement  has 
suffered  with  the  temporary  decline  of  the  Free  Churches, 
which  has  been  commented  upon  and  mourned  by  many  Chris¬ 
tian  leaders.  It  has  been  said  that  the  spiritual  life  of  many  of 
the  churches  is  at  a  low  ebb,  and  naturally  the  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  movement  suffers  under  such  conditions.  Word  has  come 
from  many  that  the  Society  has  suffered  less,  in  this  respect, 
than  other  activities  of  the  church.  However  this  may  be,  the 
condition  of  affairs,  from  the  Christian  Endeavor  standpoint,  in 
Great  Britain  is  by  no  means  discouraging. 

In  the  long  line  of  faithful  presidents  of  the  British  Union, 
Rev.  J.  Tolefree  Parr,  the  eminent  evangelist,  was  succeeded  in 
June  by  Miss  Ella  M.  W^atherley,  the  first  lady  ever  to  occupy 
that  exalted  position  in  British  Christian  Endeavor.  Her  activi¬ 
ties  have  been  manifold,  and  her  thorough  devotion  for  many 
years  to  the  Christian  Endeavor  ideals,  and  her  eminent  abilities 
in  expressing  them,  have  made  her  beloved  by  Endeavorers 
throughout  the  country. 

The  National  Convention,  held  at  Whitsuntide  in  Liverpool, 
was  worthy  of  its  great  predecessors,  and  “  Liverpool,  1910  ”  will 
go  down  in  history  as  Britain’s  “  Hopeful  Convention.”  In  a 
sense  this  was  a  European  Convention,  for  Switzerland,  Germany, 
and  Norway  were  represented  by  leading  Endeavorers.  The 
success  of  the  Convention  was  practically  secured  when  Mr. 
W.  H.  Hope  was  obtained  as  Convention  Chairman. 

One  hundred  and  fifty-seven  new  societies  were  reported  as 
enrolled  in  the  British  Union  during  the  year,  though  several 
thousand  societies  in  different  denominations  exist  in  Great 
Britain  that  do  not  belong  to  the  Union. 

GERMANY 

WHEN  we  turn  to  Germany,  we  find  much  to  encourage  us 
along  Christian  Endeavor  lines.  The  shadows  of  the  Ber¬ 
lin  riots  hung  over  the  German  National  Convention,  held  in  the 
capital  city  in  October,  we  are  told,  and  yet  the  clouds  did  not 
by  any  means  overshadow  the  Convention,  but  added  new  force 

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to  at  least  two  of  the  topics,  11  How  to  Win  the  Working  Men 
and  Women,”  and  “  How  to  Win  the  Shop  Girls.”  These  topics, 
together  with  others,  show  that  German  Christian  Endeavor  is 
quite  up  with  the  times  in  considering  the  questions  of  the  day. 
The  motto  of  the  Convention,  too,  showed  the  breadth  and  un¬ 
selfishness  of  German  Christian  Endeavor,  for  it  read,  not 
“  Germany’s  Youth  for  Christ  ”  but  “  Europe’s  Youth  for 
Christ.”  A  greeting  was  received  from  the  German  Empress  and 
other  members  of  the  royal  family.  The  Secretary  reported  472 
societies,  with  11,000  members.  They  support  three  secretaries 
and  have  sent  seventeen  missionaries  to  the  Marshall  and 
Caroline  Islands.  Christian  Endeavor  has  no  more  devoted  ad¬ 
vocate  than  Rev.  Frederich  Blecher,  the  Secretary  of  the  German 
Union. 

FRANCE 

FRANCE  reports  a  decrease  in  Christian  Endeavor  societies, 
which  is  explained  by  the  fact  that  some  societies,  which 
were  not  strictly  Christian  Endeavor,  have  changed  their  name, 
and  no  longer  belong  to  the  French  National  Union.  It  is  hoped, 
however,  that  these  societies  may  fully  adopt  the  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  plans  and  methods,  and  come  under  the  helpful  influence 
of  the  French  Union. 

NORWAY 

WHEN  we  come  to  Norway,  we  find  one  of  the  most  inter¬ 
esting  of  Christian  Endeavor  countries;  indeed,  the  next 
European  National  Convention  is  to  be  held  in  Christiania,  the 
capital  of  Norway.  Though  considerable  opposition  has  been 
met,  those  two  good  friends  of  Christian  Endeavor,  Pastor  Meyer 
and  Pastor  Klaeboe,  report  steady  and  substantial  advance  in 
the  Land  of  the  Northmen. 

The  writer  of  this  remembers  his  first  visit  to  Norway,  some 
twelve  or  fifteen  years  ago,  when  he  found  little  but  scepticism 
in  regard  to  the  value  of  the  society  for  the  conservative  churches 
of  Norway.  On  a  later  visit,  scarcely  two  years  ago,  he  found 
that  in  Christiania  and  its  immediate  vicinity  there  were  thirty 
societies  of  Christian  Endeavor,  that  King  Haakon  himself  was 
interested  in  the  new  movement,  and  had  given  permission  to 
one  of  the  leading  pastors  of  the  State  Church  to  travel  through¬ 
out  Norway  to  tell  about  the  value  of  the  new  movement. 

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AND  HIS  FAMILY. 


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SWEDEN 

IN  Sweden,  there  are  a  large  number  of  Young  People’s  soci¬ 
eties  similar  to  Christian  Endeavor,  both  in  the  Free  Churches, 
Methodist,  Baptist,  and  Congregational,  and  in  the  Lutheran 
State  Church  as  well.  Many  of  them,  however,  do  not  take  the 
Christian  Endeavor  name,  though  they  use  the  topics  and  are 
in  all  essential  ways  identical  with  Christian  Endeavor.  It  is 
hoped  that  before  long  they  will  all  come  into  the  ranks  of  the 
world-wide  fellowship,  for  no  more  earnest  and  devoted  Chris¬ 
tian  young  people  are  to  be  found  than  those  who  make  up  the 
rank  and  file  of  the  Swedish  churches. 


FINLAND 

FINLAND  has  for  some  years  had  a  strong  contingent  of 
Christian  Endeavor,  which  each  year  gains  in  numbers  and 
in  vigor.  None  deserve  more  heartily  the  prayers  and  sympathy 
of  their  American  friends,  for  under  the  tyrannous  rule  of  Russia, 
the  very  national  life  of  the  Finns  is  in  danger. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  an  organized  effort  to  develop 
Christian  Endeavor  among  the  Finns  of  America  has  been  en¬ 
couraged  during  the  past  year,  and  Mr.  Risle  Lappala  has  been 
appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Finnish  Christian  Endeavor 
work.  The  name  of  the  first  American  society,  in  Ashtabula 
Harbor,  O.,  is  “  Kiotto,”  which  means  “  dawn,” — a  name  hap¬ 
pily  prophetic  of  the  dawn  of  a  larger  work  among  the  Finns 
of  America. 

BALTIC  PROVINCES  OF  RUSSIA 

OTHER  parts  of  the  Russian  domain  in  which  Christian 
Endeavor  has  found  a  foothold  are  in  the  Baltic  Provinces 
about  Riga,  where  the  Lutherans  have  introduced  it  into  their 
churches,  and  in  Russian  Poland.  The  Lettish  people  of  Russia 
have  also  found  help  in  Christian  Endeavor  in  training  their 
young  people  for  the  church  of  the  future. 

HUNGARY 

THE  Endeavorers  of  Hungary,  though  comparatively  few  in 
numbers,  have  for  years  been  in  the  forefront  of  Christian 
Endeavor  activities  under  the  lead  of  their  beloved  President, 

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Dr.  Szabo.  No  societies  are  more  energetic  or  more  self-sacri¬ 
ficing.  The  leading  centre  of  Christian  Endeavor  in  Hungary  is 
Budapest,  the  beautiful  capital  of  the  kingdom,  and  here  the 
Endeavorers  have  undertaken  the  great  work  of  maintaining  the 
Bethesda  Hospital,  which  demands  the  raising  of  $34,000.  Dur¬ 
ing  the  past  year  this  little  band  of  Endeavorers  has  raised 


HOSPITAL,  BUDA-PESTH,  HUNGARY,  ERECTED  AND  SUPPORTED  BY 
CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVORERS. 

more  than  $10,000  to  wipe  out  a  debt  on  the  hospital,  which  they 
have  nearly  succeeded  in  accomplishing.  They  do  not  confine 
their  benevolences  alone  to  their  home  work,  but  have  already 
sent  $110  to  the  fund  for  the  International  Headquarters  Build¬ 
ing  in  Boston. 

SWITZERLAND 

IN  Switzerland,  the  work  of  Christian  Endeavor  is  progressing, 
both  in  German  and  French  Switzerland.  Geneva  is  still  in 
the  lead,  however,  and  Rev.  Ernest  Sauvin  is  the  energetic  Sec¬ 
retary  of  the  European  Union  of  Christian  Endeavor,  and  the 
editor  of  a  tri-lingual  paper;  for  every  month  there  is  issued  an 

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attractive  cyclostyle  journal,  with  this  title  in  English,  German, 
and  French: 

Christian  Endeavor  throughout  Europe. 

Jugendbund  fur  entschiedenes  Christenthum  in  Europa. 

Les  Societds  d' activity  chre'tienne  a  tr avers  V Europe. 

This  little  paper  gives,  in  small  compass,  most  valuable  infor¬ 
mation  concerning  the  progress  of  the  work  in  these  different 
lands. 

SPAIN 

OUR  Spanish  friends  have  been  greatly  rejoiced,  of  late,  by 
the  edict  of  toleration  promulgated  by  the  government  at 
present  in  power,  or  at  least  by  the  more  liberal  interpretation 
of  an  old  edict.  This  will  put  Protestantism  on  a  different  basis 
in  Spain  from  what  it  has  been  in  the  past,  and  will  doubtless 
work  to  the  advantage  of  Christian  Endeavor,  which  is  one  of  the 
great  hand-maidens  of  Protestantism  in  the  Iberian  Peninsula. 

Seldom  has  the  writer  attended  a  more  enthusiastic  or  delight¬ 
ful  convention  than  the  last  Spanish  National  Convention,  held 
in  Barcelona.  It  was  full  not  only  of  zeal,  but  of  genuine,  intelli¬ 
gent  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Christ.  Many  of  the  delegates  had 
suffered  for  their  faith,  but  none  was  ashamed  of  it.  A  veteran 
missionary  assured  me  that  since  the  days  of  the  Visigoths  in  the 
6th  Century,  no  such  evangelical  meetings  had  been  held  in 
Spain.  That  is  significant  of  the  power  of  Christian  Endeavor 
in  this  land  which  so  long  has  been  under  the  domination  of  a 
reactionary  Romanism. 


ITALY 

ITALY  is  another  preeminently  Catholic  country,  where  we 
cannot  expect  to  find  large  numbers  of  Christian  Endeavor- 
ers,  but  in  many  of  the  leading  cities  we  should  find  at  least  a 
few,  for  there  are  some  eighteen  societies  in  Italy,  scattered 
throughout  the  Peninsula.  One  of  the  most  interesting  is  found 
in  the  Waldensian  Church  in  Torre  Pellice,  where  these  brave 
defenders  of  the  faith  for  so  many  centuries  have  had  their  head¬ 
quarters.  Here  one  may  see  a  commodious  building  erected  by 
the  Endeavorers  and  on  a  marble  tablet  on  the  wall  the  legend, 
Casa  Attivita  Cristiano, —  House  of  the  Society  of  Christian  En¬ 
deavor. 


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BULGARIA  AND  MACEDONIA 

IN  Southeastern  Europe,  the  Society  flourishes  chiefly  in 
Bulgaria  and  Macedonia,  where  the  missionaries  of  the 
American  Board  have  established  themselves,  and  have  done 
for  many  years  a  glorious  work.  In  Samakov  and  Philippopolis, 
Salonica  and  Monastir,  are  there  flourishing  Endeavor  societies, 
Young  People’s  and  Junior,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  more  liberal 
policy  of  the  new  Turkish  government  will  enable  the  Mace¬ 
donian  societies  to  increase  in  numbers  and  in  power. 

TURKEY 

WHEN  we  cross  the  Bosphorus,  we  find  some  fifty  societies 
in  Turkey,  though  no  very  recent  reports  have  come  from 
some  of  them.  New  hope,  however,  has  come  with  the  advent  of 
the  new  constitution,  and  it  is  expected  that  Christian  Endeavor 
will  do  its  full  share  in  regenerating  this  land  which  now  seems 
so  much  more  ready  then  ever  in  the  past  to  admit  the  gospel 
to  its  remotest  bounds. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  facts  that  has  recently  come  to  my 
knowledge  has  been  the  formation  of  a  society  of  young  people 
in  the  ancient  Gregorian  or  Armenian  Church.  This  society  uses 
our  common  topics,  and  I  am  assured  by  a  missionary  that  it  is, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  a  Christian  Endeavor  society.  When 
one  considers  the  intense  conservatism  of  this  ancient  church, 
and  its  unwillingness  in  the  past  to  adopt  new  methods  of  Chris¬ 
tian  nurture  or  Christian  service,  we  can  but  hope  that  this 
society  will  be  the  entering  wedge  to  introduce  aggressive  Chris¬ 
tian  ideals  into  the  heart  of  this  church,  which  so  long  has  kept 
alive  the  traditions  of  Christianity  amid  the  darkness  and  super¬ 
stition  of  Mohammedanism. 

EGYPT 

IN  our  journey  around  the  world  for  Christian  Endeavor,  we 
should  find  a  few  societies  in  Syria  and  in  Palestine;  but  not 
until  we  reach  Egypt,  eastbound,  would  we  find  any  large  number 
of  societies,  after  leaving  Europe  and  Turkey. 

In  Egypt,  however,  the  Society  has  taken  deep  root  in  the 
great  Mission  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  and  is  regarded 
as  one  of  the  great  evangelistic  agencies  of  the  Mission.  All  up 

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and  down  the  fertile  Nile,  far  into  the  Soudan,  out  into  the  desert 
on  either  side,  under  the  shadow  of  the  Sphinx  and  the  Pyramids, 
wherever  this  Mission  has  made  its  blessed  way,  are  Christian 
Endeavor  societies  found. 


A  GROUP  OF  MISSIONARIES  AND  ENDEAVORERS  IN  EGYPT. 

The  Christian  Endeavorers  who  journeyed  last  year  to  India, 
to  attend  the  World’s  Convention  at  Agra,  received  a  most 
cordial  welcome  from  the  societies  of  Cairo,  and  were  as  sur¬ 
prised  as  they  were  delighted  to  know  that  there  were  now  no  less 
than  sixty  societies  in  the  United  Presbyterian  Mission  alone, 

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though  only  seventeen  had  hitherto  been  recorded  by  the  World’s 
Union. 

A  very  striking  picture  shows  a  picnic  of  some  Cairo  Endeav¬ 
orers,  some  in  red  fezes  and  others  in  the  picture  hats  of  American 
young  ladies,  which  was  held  with  the  Sphinx  and  the  great 
Pyramid  of  Cheops  for  a  background.  No  picture  could  more 
strikingly  show  how  Christian  Endeavor  has  gained  a  foothold 
in  the  land  of  the  Pharaohs. 

INDIA 

ON  through  the  Suez  Canal,  the  Red  Sea,  and  across  the 
Indian  Ocean  the  Endeavorers  sailed,  who  last  year  were 
bound  for  the  Convention  at  Agra.  Their  expectations  were 
large,  their  hopes  of  a  unique  and  unusual  convention  were  by 
no  means  small;  and  yet  it  was  an  experiment  to  hold  a  World’s 
Christian  Endeavor  Convention  in  a  place  so  remote  from  the 
centres  of  Christian  civilization.  It  seemed  to  many  a  rash  and 
venturesome  thing  to  do.  Would  the  people  come?  Would  the 
Christians  of  India  arise  to  the  occasion?  If  the  throngs  did 
come,  could  they  be  accommodated?  Could  the  language  diffi¬ 
culty  be  overcome,  since  scores  of  vernaculars  are  spoken? 

All  these  questions  naturally  arose,  but  the  faith  and  courage 
of  the  India  Endeavorers  were  equal  to  the  occasion.  One  by  one, 
the  difficulties  were  overcome.  President  Herbert  Anderson  of 
the  Christian  Undeavor  Union  of  India,  Burma,  and  Ceylon,  and 
General  Secretary  Herbert  Halliwell,  and  the  other  officers  and 
committees,  knew  no  such  word  as  “  Failure.”  Their  faith  and 
zeal  were  rewarded,  and  their  largest  anticipations  more  than  met. 

Though  the  story  of  Agra  belongs  properly  to  the  year  1909, 
yet  so  late  in  the  year  did  the  Convention  occur,  that  it  was  im¬ 
possible  to  more  than  forecast  it  in  last  year’s  11  Story.”  Indeed, 
it  was  expected,  at  first,  that  the  Convention  would  be  held  in 
the  early  days  of  1910;  but  late  November  of  1909  proving  more 
convenient  for  those  who  came  from  America,  the  date  of  the 
meeting,  which  was  originally  planned  for  this  year,  was  put 
forward  a  few  weeks. 

I  may  be  permitted  here  to  quote  a  few  paragraphs  from  the 
account  of  the  Convention  that  I  wrote  upon  the  spot,  when  its 
memories  were  fresh,  and  its  wonderful  scenes  were  vividly 
presented  to  eye  and  ear. 


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Another  wonderfully  successful  Convention  has  been  added 
to  the  long  list  that  has  enriched  Christian  Endeavor  history 
during  the  last  eight  and  twenty  years.  In  some  important  re¬ 
spects  “Agra,  1909,”  was  the  most  remarkable  Christian  conven¬ 
tion  ever  held  in  the  history  of  the  world. 

This  sounds  extravagant,  but  let  me  prove  it.  The  Convention 
was  held  in  the  very  heart  of  India,  in  a  city  of  200,000  heathen; 


THE  TAJ  MAHAL,  AGRA,  INDIA,  AND  DELEGATES  TO  THE  FOURTH 
WORLD’S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  CONVENTION. 

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The  fifty  American  delegates  travelled  in  the  aggregate  over  a 
million  miles  to  get  there  and  back.  168  mission  stations  were 
represented  by  400  missionaries  and  over  3,000  native  converts. 

A  hundred  native  delegates  came  from  Burma,  each  travelling 
some  3,000  miles  to  get  to  the  Convention  and  home  again,  with 
many  missionaries  from  Burma  swelling  their  forces.  Ten  boys 
from  the  Baptist  mission  of 'Assam  travelled  a  still  longer  dis¬ 
tance,  and,  among  these  ten,  seven  different  languages  were 
spoken. 

Canada,  England,  Scotland,  Wales,  Germany,  Sweden,  China, 
Japan,  Australia,  New  Zealand,  and  other  countries  were  repre¬ 
sented.  In  all,  31  different  languages  were  spoken  by  delegates. 
The  British  government  of  India  did  an  unprecedented  thing  in 
furnishing  free  of  charge  the  vice-regal  camp,  consisting  of  more 
than  300  tents,  several  of  them  very  large  ones,  for  the  use  of  the 
Convention.  In  this  camp  most  of  the  delegates  lived,  sleeping, 
eating,  praying,  singing,  speaking,  listening,  all  in  this  great 
compound  on  one  of  India’s  vast  plains,  during  four  of  the  most 
memorable  days  in  the  history  of  Christian  India. 

Imagine  the  scene!  O  that  I  could  picture  it  to  you  in  the  glow¬ 
ing  colors  that  it  deserves! 

Here  is  the  great  white  city  covering  acres  of  ground;  three 
hundred  white  tents  glowing  in  the  tropical  sun  of  midday,  or 
glistening  in  the  palqr  beams  of  the  glorious  Indian  moon. 

Those  who  remember  the  white  Convention  city  of  “  Detroit, 
’99  ”  can  have  some  idea  of  the  scene,  though  Detroit  could 
scarcely  boast  of  one-sixth  as  many  tents  on  the  Convention 
grounds. 

And  the  surroundings,  how  different  from  the  beautiful  city 
between  the  lakes! 

Here  no  trim  lawns  and  beautiful  modern  houses  and  bustling 
street-cars;  instead,  the  wide  and  dusty  fields  of  this  “  dry  and 
thirsty  land.”  But  what  color,  what  life,  what  strange  and 
thrilling  scenes  on  every  side! 

There  goes  a  procession  of  fifty  charming  brown  girls  with 
white  saris  over  their  heads.  They  came  from  the  Punjab,  and 
this  is  the  greatest  outing  of  their  lives.  Near-by  walk  some 
grave  white-turbaned  pundits. 

Come  with  me  to  the  back  of  the  great  vice-regal  camp,  and 
see  this  throng  of  hundreds  of  village  Endeavorers  of  low  caste 
from  the  Lodiana  mission  of  the  Presbyterians,  marshalled  by 
those  two  veteran  Endeavorers,  Mr.  McGaw  and  Mr.  Bandy. 
They  have  several  tents  of  their  own,  and  one  big  one  where  300 
of  them  sleep. 

They  have  their  drums  and  their  tomtoms  and  their  dances 
(not  promiscuous  dances,  for  there  are  only  boys  in  this  tent, 
and  each  one  dances  without  a  partner  for  the  pure  fun  and  grace 
of  motion),  and  mingle  plenty  of  good  cheer  with  their  religion. 
They  cook  their  cakes  in  a  hole  in  the  ground,  plastering  them 
on  the  side  of  a  big  sunken  pot  made  red  hot  by  a  fire  within. 

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Within  the  compound  were  hundreds  of  men’s  tents  and 
women’s  tents  in  a  different  part  of  the  grounds,  besides  married 
people’s  tents,  and  exhibition  tents,  where  thousands  of  pretty 
and  useful  articles  were  for  sale,  and  two  huge  audience  tents, 
one  where  English  was  spoken,  while  in  the  other  Hindustani 
was  the  vernacular. 

Then  there  were  rest  tents  and  hospital  tents,  and  a  literature 
tent,  and  a  photographer’s  tent,  a  great  canvas  restaurant,  and 
many  others  which  I  did  not  have  time  to  visit. 

But  the  crowning  glory  of  Agra  I  have  not  yet  mentioned. 

What  is  that  vast  white  bubble  soaring  up  into  the  sky  just 
beyond  the  camp,  some  ten  minutes’  walk  away? 

What  are  those  stately  minarets  and  that  wonderful  gateway 
of  red  sandstone? 

You  have  already  guessed.  It  is  the  Taj  Mahal,  the  one  abso¬ 
lutely  perfect  building  in  all  the  world,  the  despair  of  all  archi¬ 
tects  and  builders  since,  the  mighty  palace  tomb  “  designed  by 
Titans,  executed  by  jewellers.” 

There  it  stands  within  plain  view  of  the  Christian  Endeavor 
camp,  an  inspiration  to  every  one  who  has  eyes  to  see;  the  noble 
marble  walls  thick  set  with  precious  stones,  and  wrought  with 
all  manner  of  marble  tracery  and  lace-work  as  dainty  as  a 
lady’s  veil,  as  strong  and  noble  as  one  of  the  hills  of  God. 


To  describe  fully  the  Convention  would  require  volumes  in¬ 
stead  of  paragraphs,  but  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  it  was  the 
greatest  representative  religious  convention  of  any  kind  ever 
held  on  the  soil  of  India.  Its  aftermath  has  been  peculiarly 
happy.  The  memory  of  the  consecration  meeting,  in  which  re¬ 
sponses  were  made  in  thirty-one  different  languages;  of  the 
mighty  song  service,  when  the  praises  of  the  nations  were  heard 
in  as  many  more;  the  great  and  inspiring  addresses  from  English 
and  Hindustani  alike;  the  open-air  meeting  on  the  hilltop,  al¬ 
most  under  the  shadow  of  the  Taj  Mahal,  which  was  held  after 
the  Convention  closed;  —  none  of  these  meetings  will  ever  be  for¬ 
gotten  by  those  who  were  present. 

Under  the  inspiring  leadership  of  Mr.  William  Shaw,  money 
was  raised  for  the  employment  of  twenty  field  secretaries,  in 
the  different  vernaculars  of  India,  and  also  money  for  an 
Assistant  General  Secretary,  which  the  enlarged  work  made 
necessary.  Already  the  work  of  expansion,  foreshadowed  by  the 
Convention,  has  begun.  Though  there  had  been  an  enormous 
growth  in  the  number  of  societies  within  the  last  two  years,  of 
from  900  to  over  1,300,  that  is  but  a  foretaste  of  the  larger  work 

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that  Christian  Endeavor  has  to  do  in  India  when  all  these  secre¬ 
taries  are  equipped  and  at  work. 

At  least  two  most  inspiring  conventions  have  since  been  held, 
one  in  Vellore,  Southern  India,  and  another  in  Satara  in  the 
Marathi  country,  while  many  missionary  meetings  have  re- 


AME RICAN  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVORERS  IN  INDIA. 


echoed  the  joyous  notes  of  the  great  World’s  Convention  of 
Christian  Endeavor. 

In  the  meantime,  Secretary  Halliwell  has  been  taking  his 
well-earned  furlough  in  his  homeland,  Great  Britain;  and  in¬ 
stead  of  resting  upon  his  laurels,  he  has  been  journeying  from 
one  end  of  the  United  Kingdom  to  the  other,  arousing  such  an 
interest  in  Christian  Endeavor  in  India  as  the  British  Endeavor- 
ers  have  never  known  before.  Undoubtedly  not  only  a  larger 
interest  but  a  far  larger  support  may  be  expected  in  the  years  to 
come  from  this  British  campaign  of  India’s  indefatigable  Secre¬ 
tary. 


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BURMA 

STILL  journeying  East,  we  come  to  Burma,  which  in  u  The 
Story  of  the  Year  ”  should  have  a  distinct  paragraph,  though 
it  is  part  of  the  Indian  Empire  and  the  Indian  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  Union.  This  is  preeminently  the  field  of  the  American 
Baptists,  and  all  up  and  down  the  Irrawaddy  their  blessed  work 
is  known. 

Christian  Endeavor  has  gone  with  them  to  the  remotest 
bounds  of  Burma,  to  the  borders  of  Siam  and  China.  Among 
people  who  speak  a  dozen  different  languages  the  Society  is  found; 
and  when  the  round-the-world  travellers  reached  Rangoon,  in 
the  Baptist  College  and  churches  of  that  city  it  seemed  to  them 
as  though  another  World’s  Convention  was  being  held,  so  large 
were  the  numbers  and  so  great  the  enthusiasm. 

Nearly  one  hundred  Burmese  Endeavorers,  with  twenty  of 
their  missionaries,  journeyed  fifteen  hundred  miles  to  the  Agra 
Convention,  across  sea  and  land.  No  wonder  that  they  brought 
back  with  them  not  only  new  ideas  but  new  inspiration  for  the 
work  which  was  already  so  strong  in  their  beautiful  and  historic 
land. 

THE  PHILIPPINES 

AS  we  journey  Eastward  from  India,  we  soon  come  to  the 
Philippine  Islands,  and  here,  where  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
wave  as  proudly  as  over  any  other  American  soil,  the  banners  of 
Christian  Endeavor  are  also  seen.  The  societies  are  found  not 
only  in  the  churches  of  white  Americans,  but  in  the  Filipino 
churches  as  well;  and  our  organization,  it  is  hoped,  will  have  not 
a  small  part  in  promoting  an  intelligent  and  effective  Chris¬ 
tianity  throughout  all  the  islands  of  the  archipelago. 

CHINA 

THE  Philippine  Islands  lie  at  the  very  door  of  China,  and  a 
few  days’  sail  brings  one  to  the  great  British  city  of  Hong 
Kong,  with  its  hundreds  of  thousands  of  yellow  British  subjects, 
while  up  the  Pearl  River  a  hundred  miles  further  is  the  purely 
Chinese  city  of  Canton. 

Mighty  are  the  rivers  of  this  great  empire,  vast  its  territory, 
almost  innumerable  its  inhabitants.  Here,  too,  if  I  am  not  a 
false  prophet,  Christian  Endeavor  will  have  some  of  its  largest 

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future  triumphs.  It  seems  to  be  adapted  to  the  genius  of  the 
Chinese  mind.  They  have  been  used  to  guilds  and  societies  of 
various  kinds  for  unnumbered  generations.  The  methods  and 
ideals  of  Christian  Endeavor  seem  to  attract  them,  when  they 


MR.  AND  MRS.  E.  A.  STROTHER,  SECRETARIES  EOR  CHINA,  ON  RIGHT, 
REAR  ROW,  WITH  HIGH-CLASS  CHINESE  FAMILY. 

are  understood,  and  the  societies  under  the  efficient  lead  of  Rev. 
and  Mrs.  Edgar  E.  Strother,  the  joint  Secretaries  for  China,  are 
multiplying  rapidly  in  many  parts  of  the  empire. 

Foochow  has  long  been  a  chief  centre  of  Christian  Endeavor  in 
China.  Here  the  first  society,  outside  of  America,  was  estab¬ 
lished  in  1884,  by  Rev.  George  H.  Hubbard.  The  Fukien  Prov¬ 
ince  is  still  a  stronghold  of  the  movement,  but  North  China  and 

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South  China  alike,  and  West  China  as  well,  are  now  heartily 
adopting  the  Christian  Endeavor  idea. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Strother  have  tactfully  interested  the  China 
Inland  Mission,  which  is  doing  so  great  a  work  in  this  kingdom’s 
evangelization,  also  the  Church  of  England  missionaries.  The 
literature  of  the  movement  is  being  increased  in  the  Chinese 
language,  and  the  expectation  of  a  great  National  Christian 
Endeavor  Convention  in  Peking  in  1911,  I  believe  will  not  be 
disappointed. 

JAPAN 

TN  no  country  in  the  world  did  the  Endeavor  pilgrims  receive 
a  heartier  welcome  on  their  journey  around  the  world  than 
in  the  land  of  the  Rising  Sun.  In  every  large  city  which  they 
visited,  special  meetings  were  held  in  their  honor,  and  the  En¬ 
deavor  Unions  of  Nagasaki,  Kobe,  Osaka,  Tokyo,  Kyoto,  and 
Sendai,  each  one  seemed  to  outdo  the  other  in  the  cordiality 
of  their  welcome  and  in  their  tribute  to  the  power  and  value  of 
Christian  Endeavor. 

Secretary  Tatsu  Sawaya  is  very  evidently  the  right  man  in  the 
right  place.  Energetic,  tactful,  thoroughly  evangelistic,  he  has 


WELCOME  OF  THE  AMERICAN  TOURISTS  AND  ENDEAVORERS, 
TOKYO,  JAPAN,  I91O. 

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won  a  host  of  new  friends  every  year  to  the  cause  of  Christian 
Endeavor,  for  in  this  society  he  learned  to  know  and  to  serve 
Christ,  having  come  up  through  the  Junior  and  Young  People’s 
societies  to  the  honored  place  in  the  movement  which  he  now 
occupies. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  at  the  National  Convention,  held 
in  Sendai  in  the  early  part  of  the  year,  while  the  American  pil¬ 
grims  were  in  Japan,  even  the  jinrikisha  men  carried  the  “  C.  E  ” 
monogram  upon  their  lanterns,  as  they  trundled  the  visitors 
about  the  streets. 

It  also  should  be  recorded,  perhaps,  that  the  Emperor  of 
Japan  received  the  President  of  the  United  Society  of  Christian 
Endeavor  in  a  private  audience,  an  honor  which  is  very  rarely 
accorded,  and  which  was  by  no  means  a  personal  honor,  but 
indicated  the  good  will  of  the  Emperor  toward  America  and 
toward  the  Christian  institution  represented  by  his  visitor.  It 
was  felt  by  the  missionaries  and  the  Christian  Endeavorers  of 
Japan  that  such  a  recognition  of  a  Christian  organization  would 
be  of  real  value  to  them,  as  I  have  been  told  it  has  since  proved 
to  be. 


tEtir  3|silanl>  ^orlo 

AUSTRALIA 

THE  Island  World  alone  remains  to  be  considered  in  the  1910 
Story  of  Christian  Endeavor.  Australia,  whether  it  may  be 
considered  continent  or  island,  has  long  held  a  foremost  place 
among  the  nations  of  the  world  in  its  hospitality  to  our  move¬ 
ment.  Strong  State  Unions  exist  in  at  least  five  of  the  six  Com¬ 
monwealths  of  the  United  States  of  Australia.  Every  year  great 
conventions  are  held  in  these  States,  and  the  National  Austra¬ 
lasian  Convention,  which  was  this  year  held  in  Brisbane,  Queens¬ 
land,  was  a  marked  event  in  the  religious  world. 

In  the  City  Tabernacle  of  that  city  a  tablet  has  recently  been 
unveiled  to  declare  to  future  generations  that  in  this  church  the 
first  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  in  Australia  was  started. 
The  pastor  of  the  church  is  Rev.  James  Mursell,  for  many  years 
prominent  in  Christian  Endeavor  circles,  not  only  in  Australia 
but  in  London  and  Edinburgh. 

While  many  deserve  special  praise  for  the  work  of  the  past 

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year,  none  has  exceeded  in  zeal  and  devotion  Mr.  J.  B.  Spencer, 
of  Sydney,  the  President  of  the  New  South  Wales  Union  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Australasian  Union.  His  interest  in  the  pro¬ 
posed  International  Headquarters  Building  has  been  surpassed 
by  few  even  in  America,  and  over  $1,000  through  his  solicitation 
have  been  obtained  and  forwarded  for  this  purpose. 

Melbourne  and  Adelaide  are  also  chief  centres  of  Christian 
Endeavor  interest,  and  the  three  papers  published  in  Australia 
tell  every  month  of  the  prosperity  of  the  good  work. 

NEW  ZEALAND 

T  N  New  Zealand,  the  general  union  is  not  so  prosperous,  per- 
haps,  as  in  Australia,  but  there  are  many  good  societies  and 
local  unions,  where  the  young  people  of  these  wonderful  islands 
of  the  South  Seas  are  definitely  trained  for  the  service  of  Christ 
in  their  respective  churches. 

OTHER  ISLANDS  OF  THE  SOUTH  SEAS 

AS  has  been  said  before,  some  of  the  islands  of  the  South  Seas, 
though  looking  like  minute  specks  on  the  map,  in  propor¬ 
tion  to  their  population  exceed  all  others  in  the  number  of  their 


JUNIOR  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  SOCIETY,  ULGUNDALIE  ISLAND. 

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Endeavor  societies.  It  is  said  that  in  the  Marshall  Islands  one 
person  in  every  six  is  a  Christian  Endeavorer.  The  Ellis,  the 
»  Caroline,  the  Samoan,  and  the  Fiji  are  all  dotted  with  Endeavor 
societies. 

The  Society,  and  indeed  all  Christian  work,  sustained  a  great 
loss  during  the  past  year  in  the  death  of  Rev.  J.  E.  Newell,  the 
*  first  promoter  of  Christian  Endeavor  in  Samoa,  and  its  ardent 
advocate,  not  only  in  his  vast  parish,  the  many  islands  of  the 
South  Seas,  but  in  Great  Britain  as  well,  when  on  furlough  in  the 
home  country.  Nor  was  he  a  stranger  in  America,  where  he  was 
greatly  beloved. 

In  the  Samoan  Islands  there  are  now  seventeen  German  En¬ 
deavor  missionaries,  sent  out  and  supported,  in  part,  by  the 
societies  of  Germany.  Thus  Europe  and  America  and  the  far 
remote  Islands  of  the  Sea  are  bound  together  by  the  “  chain  of 
love,”  which  we  call  Christian  Endeavor. 


HAWAII 

WHEN  we  come  to  Hawaii,  we  find  that  in  all  the  islands  of 
the  group  are  many  Christian  Endeavor  societies.  The 
growth  during  the  last  three  or  four  years  has  been  remarkable, 
though  for  many  years  the  Society  has  been  known  in  these  fair 
islands. 

Thousands  of  people  came  together  to  greet  the  American 
Endeavorers  last  January  on  their  journey  around  the  world. 
Not  only  was  the  island  of  Oahu,  in  which  the  city  of  Honolulu  is 
located,  represented  in  these  gatherings,  but  Hawaii,  Kauai,  and 
Maui  also  had  large  delegations.  No  part  of  their  journey  did 
these  world-girdling  Endeavorers  enjoy  more  than  the  days  they 
spent  in  hospitable  Hawaii. 

A  feature  of  Hawaiian  Endeavor  is  the  number  of  national¬ 
ities  represented  in  the  Society.  Not  only  white  Americans  and 
brown  Americans,  but  Japanese,  Chinese,  Korean  and  Portuguese 
all  have  societies  of  their  own,  or  sometimes  join  in  mixed  soci¬ 
eties,  and  find  an  equal  blessing  in  their  cosmopolitan  work. 


THE  ISLANDS  OF  THE  ATLANTIC  OCEAN 


WHILE  referring  to  the  Islands  of  the  Sea,  it  will  not  do  to 
omit  the  good  work  which  is  being  done  in  Cuba,  Porto 
Rico,  Trinidad,  the  Bahamas,  and  the  Windward  Islands,  and 

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HOW  THE  HONOLULU  ENDEAVORERS  WELCOMED  THE  AMERICAN  DELEGATES  ON  THEIR  WAY  HOME  FROM  THE 

AGRA  CONVENTION. 


®ije  §>torp  of  dje  §£ear 


especially  in  Jamaica,  where  for  many  years  Christian  Endeavor 
has  been  one  of  the  strong  forces  of  evangelical  work.  There 
are  few  places  in  the  world  where  larger  audiences  can  be  gath¬ 
ered  for  a  Christian  Endeavor  meeting  than  in  Kingston,  or 
Spanish  Town,  and  other  centres  of  Jamaica. 

COSTA  RICA  AND  PANAMA 

A  NEAR  neighbor  of  these  West  India  Islands  is  Costa  Rica, 
from  which  we  constantly  hear  encouraging  news  of  the 
progress  of  the  movement.  In  Panama  also  are  several  good 
societies  of  Christian  Endeavor. 


ACROSS  THE  ATLANTIC 

WHEN  we  cross  the  Atlantic  and  draw  near  the  African 
shore  we  find  some  good  societies  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  mission  of  Madeira.  A  little  further  in  our  journey  and 
Gibraltar  would  be  reached  and  here,  too,  in  the  world’s  great 
rock  fortress,  both  in  the  Church  of  England  cathedral  and  in 
the  Presbyterian  church  we  should  find  flourishing  Christian 
Endeavor  societies. 

SOUTH  AMERICA 

FROM  South  America  comparatively  little  has  this  year  been 
heard  as  to  the  progress  of  the  societies.  We  can  only  hope 
that  “  no  news  is  good  news,”  and  that  the  many  societies  of 
Brazil  and  the  few  that  are  found  in  Chile,  Argentina  and  Peru 
are  holding  on  their  way,  and  working  heartily  for  “  Christ  and 
the  Church.” 

SOUTH  AFRICA 

IN  South  Africa  there  are  both  an  English  Christian  Endeavor 
Union  and  a  Dutch  Union,  the  latter  of  which  is  by  far  the 
stronger.  Recent  advices  from  South  Africa  report  that  the 
Dutch  Union  is  flourishing  greatly,  and  was  never  so  strong  and 
vigorous  as  to-day;  indeed,  that  it  has  touched  the  high-water 
mark  of  success  in  numbers  and  vigor  during  1910. 

The  same  cannot  be  said,  perhaps,  of  the  English  Union  in 
South  Africa,  for  various  causes  have  conspired  to  prevent  the 
growth  of  some  societies.  However,  many  English-speaking  soci¬ 
eties  are  doing  good  work,  and  under  the  leadership  of  the  be- 

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loved  and  devoted  Andrew  Murray,  larger  things  are  expected  of 
them  in  the  future  for  the  evangelization  of  Africa. 

WEST  CENTRAL  AFRICA  AND  THE  CONGO 

GOOD  news  has  recently  been  received  of  societies  started 
by  missionaries  of  the  American  Board  in  West  Central 
Africa,  especially  at  Ociliso,  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Neipp  are 
particularly  active  in  the  good  work.  The  same  blessed  re¬ 
sults  follow  the  introduction  of  the  societies  as  in  the  Congo 
Country  and  other  parts  of  Africa,  where  flourishing  Endeavor 
societies  have  existed  for  several  years  in  the  Baptist  and  other 
missions.  Some  Endeavorers  have  suffered  mutilation  and  loss 
of  arms  or  hands,  under  the  cruel  orders  of  old  King  Leopold’s 
tyrants.  A  fine  steamer  called  the  “  Endeavor  ”  and  built  by 
Endeavorers,  plies  the  waters  of  the  Congo,  in  the  interests  of  the 
Baptist  mission. 

PERSIA 

SPECIFIC  mention  has  not  hitherto  been  made  of  two  or 
three  countries  in  which  Christian  Endeavor  is  established, 
because  fresh  and  authentic  news,  for  various  reasons,  has  not 
recently  been  received  from  them.  I  have  every  reason  to  sup¬ 
pose,  however,  that  in  Persia,  in  spite  of  the  distracted  political 
condition  of  the  country,  the  societies  are  moving  on  the  even 
tenor  of  their  way,  and  doing  good  work,  as  they  have  for  many 
years  past. 

MADAGASCAR 

MADAGASCAR,  too,  has  been  a  stronghold  of  Christian 
Endeavor  for  many  years,  and  though  the  French  occu¬ 
pation  for  a  time  disturbed  the  societies,  and  reduced  their 
number,  yet  the  earnest  devotion  of  the  old  Endeavorers  has  not 
waned,  while  new  recruits  have  been  added  to  their  ranks. 

KOREA 

IN  Korea,  many  of  the  churches  are  practically  organized  on 
a  Christian  Endeavor  basis,  each  church  member  promising 
to  do  certain  specific  and  definite  duties  as  a  condition  of  church 
membership.  The  missionaries  have  not,  on  that  account,  felt 
the  need  of  the  Society,  as  in  other  lands,  but  it  is  believed  that 
the  younger  generation  of  Christians  will  need  the  training  of 

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Christian  Endeavor,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Japanese  Union  has 
recently  crossed  the  Straits  to  the  former  Hermit  Nation,  which 
«  has  now  come  under  the  tutelage  of  Japan,  for  the  purpose  of 
seeing  what  more  can  be  done  for  the  establishment  of  the  En¬ 
deavor  movement  in  that  interesting  country. 

THE  QUIET  HOUR  AND  TENTH  LEGION 

DURING  the  last  year  the  work  of  the  Quiet  Hour  and  of 
the  Tenth  Legion  has  gone  on  steadily  and  successfully. 
Instead  of  waning,  the  interest  in  these  two  subsidiary  organiza¬ 
tions  of  Christian  Endeavor  seems  to  increase  as  the  years  go  by, 
and  large  numbers  of  new  Comrades  and  new  Legionaries  have 
been  added  during  the  year  past. 

California  still  leads,  with  over  12,000  members  of  the  Quiet 
Hour  and  over  4,000  belonging  to  the  Tenth  Legion.  Pennsyl¬ 
vania,  Illinois,  and  Massachusetts  are  near  together  in  the  total 
number  of  their  Quiet  Hour  Comrades,  while  of  these  three 
States,  Pennsylvania  leads  in  the  Tenth  Legion,  with  New  York 
a  close  second,  followed  by  Illinois  and  Ohio. 

The  total  number  of  Comrades  of  the  Quiet  Hour  is  55,154, 
and  of  the  Tenth  Legion  26,963.  It  must  not  be  thought  that 
this  is  the  full  number  of  those  who  are  keeping  the  Quiet  Hour, 
or  giving  proportionately  or  systematically.  Doubtless  there  are 
tens  of  thousands  of  other  Endeavorers  who  though  not  enrolled, 
are  practising  “  the  presence  of  God  ”  each  day  in  the  Quiet 
Hour,  and  are  giving,  as  God  hath  prospered  them,  systemat¬ 
ically  and  proportionately  to  His  service. 

AMONG  THE  SAILORS 

IN  many  respects  this  has  been  a  prosperous  year  for  the 
Floating  Societies  of  Christian  Endeavor.  More  interest  than 
ever  has  been  developed  among  the  Endeavorers  on  shore  in  their 
brothers  on  the  sea.  Especially  is  this  true  in  Great  Britain, 
where  Floating  Endeavor  was  naturally  a  prominent  feature  in 
the  National  Convention  in  Liverpool.  In  London  also  the  cause 
is  strong. 

In  America  there  are  many  centres  of  Floating  work  in  our 
great  seaports,  and  Miss  Antoinette  P.  Jones  keeps  in  touch 
with  a  large  number  of  the  sailor  Endeavorers  on  the  sea. 

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A  RECEPTION  TO  THE  FLOATING  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVORERS  OF  THE  U.S.S.  WEST  VIRGINIA  BY  THE  ENDEAVORERS  OF  HONOLULU. 


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The  Christian  Endeavor  Seamen’s  Home  in  Nagasaki,  Japan, 
is  still  doing  a  good  work  wherever  there  are  English-speaking 
*  sailors  or  soldiers  to  be  reached. 


CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  BEHIND  THE  BARS 


GOOD  reports  are  constantly  being  received  from  many 
Prison  societies.  We  learn  not  only  of  thousands  of  prison¬ 
ers  who  take  an  interest  in  the  organization  and  an  active  part 
in  its  services,  but  also  hear  from  chaplains  and  wardens  of  the 
excellent  effect  that  these  societies  have  on  prison  discipline  and 
the  development  of  hope  and  courage  among  the  prisoners. 

The  prisons  of  Kentucky,  perhaps,  lead  in  this  work,  as  they 
have  for  some  years  past,  but  there  are  many  societies  from  which 
excellent  reports  come.  The  most  recent  report  from  the  Ken¬ 
tucky  State  prison  at  Frankfort  tells  us  that,  out  of  600  white 
prisoners,  250  are  Christian  Endeavorers,  over  a  hundred  hav¬ 
ing  been  recently  added  to  the  Society.  Many  Endeavorers, 
too,  are  interested  in  helping  the  prisoners  when  they  are  dis¬ 
charged,  and  in  seeing  that  they  get  “  a  square  deal  ”  for  a  new 
start  in  life. 

THE  SENIOR  SOCIETY 

AN  interesting  development  of  the  past  year  has  been  the 
renewed  interest  in  the  Senior  Society  of  Christian  En¬ 
deavor.  Though  there  are  not  as  yet  many  Senior  societies  fully 
organized,  some  have  already  been  formed  that  will  pioneer  the 
way  for  others.  The  idea  of  this  society  is  not  to  form  an  organ¬ 
ization  with  separate  weekly  meetings,  but  to  enlist  former  En¬ 
deavorers,  who  for  any  reason  can  no  longer  belong  to  the  Young 
People’s  society,  in  the  midweek  prayer  meeting  of  the  church, 
and  to  bring  to  its  support  many  older  people  who  have  never 
been  Endeavorers. 

It  is  believed  that  such  a  society  would  greatly  strengthen  the 
midweek  service,  which  in  some  places  is  sadly  decadent,  would 
help  the  pastor  along  many  lines  of  church  activity  in  which  he 
needs  an  organized  band  of  older  people,  and  would  develop  the 
spiritual  life  of  the  church  members  through  the  prayer  meeting, 
as  the  Young  People’s  society  has  rejuvenated  the  young  people’s 
prayer  meeting  in  tens  of  thousands  of  churches. 


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A  FORWARD  LOOK 

IT  may  not  be  out  of  place,  as  we  close  this  necessarily  brief 
review,  to  take  a  glance  into  the  future.  No  one  can  foretell 
the  “  Story  of  1911,”  but  we  can  at  least  see  some  objects  to 
strive  for,  which,  with  God’s  blessing,  we  believe  will  be  attained 
in  the  coming  year.  * 

One  of  the  greatest  conventions  in  the  history  of  the  move¬ 
ment  I  believe  will  be  held  in  Atlantic  City,  in  July  of  1911,  from 
the  6th  to  the  12th  of  the  month.  Preparations  are  well  in  hand 
to  receive  the  throng  of  tens  of  thousands  of  Endeavorers, 
while  some  of  the  most  eminent  speakers  in  the  country  have 
already  signified  their  intention  of  being  there  to  present  the 
great  religious  and  civic  causes  for  which  Christian  Endeavor 
stands. 

At  this  meeting  the  Increase  Campaign,  “  Christian  Endeavor, 
1911,”  will  culminate.  We  shall  find  whether  we  have  attained 
the  million  new  members  and  ten  thousand  new  societies  for 
which  we  have  striven  for  the  two  past  years.  Whether  we  shall 
fully  attain  these  large  results  or  not,  I  believe  that  in  any  event 
we  shall  not  come  far  short  of  them.  The  effort  has  been  well 
worth  all  it  has  cost,  in  the  new  enthusiasms  that  have  been 
aroused,  and  the  new  spirit  which  has  been  infused  into  tens  of 
thousands  of  Christian  Endeavor  societies  and  millions  of  Chris¬ 
tian  Endeavor  hearts. 

It  is  hoped  and  believed,  too,  that  within  the  next  year  the 
first  sod  will  be  turned  for  the  foundations  of  the  new  Interna¬ 
tional  Headquarters  Building  in  Boston  —  a  building  which 
will  give  an  abiding  home  to  the  movement,  and  which  will 
greatly  aid  it  financially  in  spreading  the  news  of  Christian  En¬ 
deavor  throughout  the  world. 

ALOHA-NUI 

AS  in  imagination  I  have  journeyed  around  the  world  once 
more,  to  tell  of  the  progress  of  the  Society  during  the  twelve 
months  past,  I  seem  to  hear  the  cordial  and  kindly  greetings  of 
my  Endeavor  friends  in  every  land.  This  greeting  I  would  pass 
over  to  all  who  read  this  booklet,  for  though  spoken  in  many 
tongues,  the  thought  is  always  the  same, —  the  thought  of  Chris- 

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tian  fellowship,  unity  in  the  service  of  Christ,  love  for  all  those 
who  are  doing  His  will  in  every  land. 

In  Hawaii,  the  words  that  one  would  hear  a  dozen  times  a  day 
would  be  “Aloha-nui,”  which,  literally  translated,  means,  “  Love 
to  you  very  much.”  This  shall  be  the  last  word  of  the  “  Story  of 
Christian  Endeavor  1910  ”  to  all  Endeavorers  the  world  around, 
in  large  churches  and  small  churches,  in  remote,  non-Christian 
lands  as  well  as  in  the  centres  of  Christian  civilization,  in  country 
and  city,  in  Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  America,  Australia,  and  the 
Islands  of  the  Sea,  to  all  of  you, — “Aloha-nui,”— ' “  Love  to  you 
very  much.” 


HEADQUARTERS  BUILDING 
The  Last  Call 

DEFINITE  plans  are  under  way  for  a  final  nation-wide 
campaign  this  spring  to  complete  the  fund  for  the  Inter¬ 
national  Headquarters  Building. 

Are  you  going  to  have  your  part  in  it? 

If  you  have  one  of  the  Dime  Building  Banks  in  your  posses¬ 
sion  will  you  not  fill  it,  and  send  it  in  to  the  United  Society  at 
once? 

If  you  have  made  a  pledge  to  the  Building  Fund,  and  it  is 
due,  will  you  not  remit  at  once? 

If  you  have  let  this  opportunity  to  express  your  appreciation 
of  what  Christian  Endeavor  means  to  you  pass  unheeded  here¬ 
tofore,  will  you  not  send  in  your  contribution,  or  a  generous 
pledge  payable  within  two  years,  now? 

Help  us  to  be  able  to  announce  at  the  Atlantic  City  Conven¬ 
tion  that  the  fund  is  completed. 

A  MATTER  OF  BUSINESS 

Tj'OR  more  than  twenty  years  the  United  Society  of  Christian 
-I-  Endeavor  has  been  self-supporting,  and  has  carried  on  its 
large  and  important  work  entirely  from  the  proceeds  of  its  pub¬ 
lishing  department.  In  addition  to  this,  it  has  contributed  largely 
to  the  extension  of  Christian  Endeavor  in  the  world-wide  field, 
With  its  limited  resources  it  was  not  able  to  assume  the  finan¬ 
cial  responsibility  for  promoting  Christian  Endeavor  in  mission 

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lands,  so  the  World’s  Christian  Endeavor  Union  was  compelled 
to  call  upon  the  societies,  and  generous  friends  of  the  movement, 
to  help  in  this  fruitful  work. 

No  more  genuine  and  helpful  missionary  work  is  being  done 
to-day  than  that  which  Christian  Endeavor  is  doing  in  providing 
a  training-school  for  the  native  converts  who  are  to  become  the 
self-sustaining  and  self-supporting  members  of  the  church  of  the 
future. 

Here  is  an  opportunity  for  you  and  your  society  to  help 
pass  on  the  blessing  that  Christian  Endeavor  has  been  to  you 
to  others  less  favored.  Will  you  help? 

Perhaps  there  are  those  among  the  readers  of  this  booklet  who 
would  like  to  remember  this  work  for  the  needy  in  other  lands  in 
their  wills. 

For  the  convenience  of  such  we  print  a  form  of  bequest. 

Form  of  Bequest 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  World’s  Christian  Endeavor 
Union,  to  be  paid  by  my  executors  to  the  Treasurer  of  said 

Union,  the  sum  of  $ - ,  the  same  to  be  applied  to  the 

general  uses  and  purposes  of  said  Union,  under  the  direction  of  ♦ 
its  Board  of  Trustees. 


SOME  STATISTICS 

The  year  1910  has  been  one  of  the  most  fruitful  in  all  the  his¬ 
tory  of  our  Christian  Endeavor  movement.  Although  the  off 
year  for  our  convention,  with  no  special  effort  made  to  gather 
complete  statistics,  more  than  4,000  new  societies  have  been 
reported  at  headquarters.  The  total  enrolment  is  now  more 
than  74,000  societies,  with  a  membership  of  more  than  three  and 
three-quarter  millions,  in  more  than  eighty  denominations,  and 
in  every  country  in  the  world. 


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TREASURER’S  REPORT 

Report  of  William  Shaw,  Treasurer  of  the  World’s  Christian 
Endeavor  Union,  for  the  year  ending  Nov.  30,  1910. 

WORLD’S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  UNION 


Receipts 

*  Balance  from  1909  .  $273.55 

Contributions  from  individuals,  societies,  and  unions  6,630.82 
British  National  Council,  for  work  in  India .  974.50 


Expenditures 

Grants  for  Christian  Endeavor  Work: 


$7,878.87 


(This  money  is  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  missionaries 
of  the  different  evangelical  denominations  and  the  native  workers, 
through  the  National  Christian  Endeavor  Unions  of  the  several 


countries.) 

Bulgaria .  $35.00 

European  Christian  Endeavor  Union  .  150.00 

France  .  200.00 

Hungary .  200.00 

India,  Burma,  and  Ceylon  .  2,974.50 

China  .  2,000.00 

Italy  .  100.00 

Japan  .  1,000.00 

Spain .  200.00 

Refund .  2.50 

Clerk  and  Stenographer .  450.00 

Literature  and  Printing  .  204.52 

Postage .  42 .00 

Sundries .  43.05 


Total  expenditures  .  $7,601.57 

Balance  in  bank  .  277.30 


$7,878.87 

Boston,  Dec.  12,  1910. 

Finding  the  foregoing  accounts  of  William  Shaw,  Treasurer  of 
the  World’s  Christian  Endeavor  Union,  correctly  cast  and  with 
proper  vouchers  on  hand,  with  the  requisite  balance  on  deposit 
in  the  Federal  Trust  Company  of  this  city,  I  hereby  acknowledge 
the  same. 

GEORGE  W.  COLEMAN,  Auditor. 

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EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS 


UNITED  SOCIETY  OF  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  Mass. 

President 

Rev.  Francis  E.  Clark,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

General  Secretary 

Mr.  William  Shaw 

T reasurer 

Mr.  Hiram  N.  Lathrop 

Editorial  Secretary 

Prof.  Amos  R.  Wells 

Inter-State  Field  Secretary 

Mr.  Karl  Lehmann 

The  Board  of  Trustees  represents  all  the  denominations  p*c 
portionately,  and  all  the  States  and  Provinces. 


WORLD’S  CHRISTIAN  ENDEAVOR  UNION 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  Mass. 

President 

Rev.  Francis  E.  Clark,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Honorary  Secretary 
Pres.  John  Willis  Baer,  LL.D. 

Office  Secretary  and  Treasurer 

Mr.  William  Shaw 

The  Board  of  Trustees  includes  representatives  of  organized 
Christian  Endeavor  in  all  lands. 


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